The Focus Sustainment Duration Test
Developing focus and concentration is like developing a muscle. We lift weights to develop
muscles, and sustain pure experiential signals to develop focus. We can only exert focus to a
certain fixed maximum rate and through the focus sustainment duration test we can ascertain
our current rate. Sustaining focus requires an effort of will. Your willpower determines for how
long you can sustain a pure experiential signal, thus we might say that the test also measures
your willpower.
The Method
Get a stopwatch or timer. Select an image (Signal) to focus on. It could be a geometric figure
such as a triangle, square or a circle; it could be any letter of the alphabet such as A, T or X;
or it could be any number such as 2, 4, 7 or 9.
Now gather all the willpower, resolve, determination and inner strength you have at your
disposal, recall the image as you know how it looks and start the stopwatch. Keep the image
clearly in focus for as long as you can, sustain a continuos unbroken uptime connection with
the image. The Signal is always clear and strong in the beginning, an active Uptime
connection, but as the seconds tick away the Noise ratio increases exponentially until
it overpowers the Signal resulting in active Downtime. When the Uptime connection
breaks for more than a few seconds, and the Signal is replaced by Noise, stop the stopwatch
and document the time.
You'll notice that it gets increasingly difficult to keep your focus on the selected signal as the
noise increases. Once in a while your focus will slip for a few seconds but when you notice
that your focus has been completely taken over by noise for more than a few seconds
(accompanied by a complete amnesia for the selected signal while the slip lasted) stop
the timer and document the time.
Please be honest with yourself and do the test with integrity for it would defeat the purpose of
your inquiry if the results were inaccurate. And please don't strain yourself doing it, its purpose
is not to increase your focus, but to measure its current capacity.
The Focus Power Method
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